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Aspects of Software Reuse

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2012-03-16, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg

Abstract: Despite continuous improvements of the tool support, creating software from scratch remains a costly endeavour. From an economic or a pragmatic point of view, it appears beneficial to strive to reuse, adapt and transform existing software as much as possible. This article provides an overview over some strategies towards that goal on the basis of chapter 16 of Ian Sommerville's book Software Engineering, supplements the contents of the book with the topic Open Source and discusses the reuse of software components with the help of Steve Yegge's "Rant" about Google and software plattforms.

This paper has been written for the Softwarearchitektur course. The topic (summarizing the book chapter) was supplied by the organizers, but was expanded with my own ideas.